Improvement in sleeping-cars



G. LEVE.

y SLEEPING CAR. Ngz. `13`1;157 n.: Patented Sept. 5 1876.

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GUsTAvE LEvE, or- MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA.

IMPROVEMENT IN SLE EPlNG-CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N o. 1S 1,857, dated September 5, 1876; application filed July 11, 1876.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that I, GUSTAVE LEVE, of the city of' Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sleeping- Gars, of which the following is -a specifica. tion:

Figure l is a detail longitudinal section of a part of a car to which my improvement has been applied, taken through the line w a', Fig. 3, showing some of the berths arranged for use. Fig. 2 is the same view as Fig. 1, but showing the berths closed up. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same, taken through the line y y, Figs. 1 and 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish railroad-cars with berths so constructed and arranged that they may be folded up out of the way in preparing the car for day use, and will not interfere with the ordinary use of the car.

The invention consists in the frames, divided into two compartments by a central partition, and hinged to the side walls of a car in such a way that they may be swung in against the said walls, or swung out at right angles with them 5 in the combination, with the hinged frames, of the berths, the stop-pins, and the spring-stops, in such a way that the said berths may be placed in a vertical position. within said frames, or turn-ed down into a horizontal position between two adjacent frames; and in a car-lioor provided with recesses at right angles with the side Walls, to receive the lower ends of the hinged frames when said frames are swung outward, as hereinafter fully described.

A represents the door, B the side walls, and C the roof, of a car, about the construction of which parts there is nothing new.

b are the windows, which are formed in the side walls B, in the usual way, and in the spaces between which are hinged frames D, in such a way that they may be turned in against the wall, s o as to be entirely out of the way, as shown in Fig. 2 and at the left side of Fig. 3, and may be turned out at right angles, as shown in Fig. 1 and at the right side of Fig. 3.

The hinges of the frames D are formed with long pintles, as shown in Fig. 2, so that when turned out the lower ends of said frames may be dropped into recesses al, formed in the ioor A to receive them, which recesses, when the frames D are turned in against the wall B, are closed by blocks a2, tted into them, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

rlhe frames D are divided into two compartments by a central plate, d', and into each ot' these compartments is fitted a berth, E. To the side edges of one end of each berth E are attached pins, which enter longitudinal grooves in the inner surfaces of the side bars of the frames D, so that by moving the upper end of each berth outward it may be slid up ward, and turned down into a horizontal position, its free end entering the adjacent frame D, and resting upon stop-pins e1, attached to said frame.

The pivoted ends of the berths E rest upon spring-stops e2, attached to said fra-mes D, and which are so formed as to yield and allow said frame to be slid up and down when adjusting it into either position.

In this way two berths are formed between each two frames D, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

The bottoms of the berths E, that are outward when the frames D are turned in against the walls B, are paneled to represent a portion ot' the Walls of the car, as indicated in Fig. 2.

Having thus described myinvention,I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- `1. The frames D, divided into two compartments by a central partition, d', and hinged to the side walls B of a car in such a way that they may be swung in against the said walls, or swung out at right angles with them, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. The combination, with the hinged frames D, of the berths E, the stop-pins e1, and the spring-stops e2, in such a way that the said berths may be placed in a vertical position within said frames D, or turned down into a horizontal position between two adjacent frames, D, substantially as herein shown and described.

3. A car-Hoor provided with recesses al at right angles with the walls B, to receive the lower ends' of the frames D when said frames are swung outward, substantially as herein shown and described.

GUSTAVE LEVE. Witnesses:

JAMEs T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER. 

